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I threw some of the hand helds in a bon fire once . Was pretty cool .

I think an elevation would also be good info for the those that are new . Kind of like a set of blueprints To see how the depths that each rig covers in relation to what is running next to it to minimize tangles and get the best water coverage .

Poster Board , and a pack of colored sharpies .

We all want and use all this modern stuff that makes our lives better and gives us higher standards of living cheaper .And everybody, everybody, wants cheaper. Our clothes,homes , vehicles , boats . Even the plastic lures and the paints on them . Everything is plastic or some sort of composite . The production process of these materials are extremely invasive . These " profit mongers "are giving us exactly what we want .

I to use know a guy that use to eat a ton of LO fish of all kinds . Sadly he died mysteriously one day . Quite possibly from what was described . He was 97 years old. As far as food allergies etc in children. After getting in my eat healthy kick a few years back I started to read the ingredients on the labels at the advice of a nutritionalist.It amazes me the amount of crap we are feeding ourselves and our children we call food . And we are worried about some fresh fish ?

I agree with Whaler Downriggers are the center of any small boat trolling system , especially for newbies IMO . I love mine on my 16 ft . Easy to deploy and are precise with depth , no guessing like with dipsys . If you were to get dipsys , make one a Braid slide driver IMO . If you are fishing spring , planer boards are nice . Some sort of down speed and temp is a great investment .

There is offshore and inshore fishing down there . Both are fun . If you or anyone is driving down and you are on I 95 , make a point of stopping at Buc EE's in Florence. It's quite the travel plaza experience . Get a brisket or what I got , a club melt sandwich . Incredible .

My Dad wintered in Venice about an hr south of Sarasota . We went out on a head boat a few times. It was fun and relatively cheap . But I had fun on the Venice jetties . Caught a variety of species . Best setups were 1/4 to 1/2 oz jigs with shrimp on 7 ft med spin rods or I used a 9 ft steelhead rod with a float with shrimp . I let it drift with the current along the rocks . Enjoy the nice weather down there .

I did pretty well in Sandy this fall and other guys also . Not as good as 2 and 3 years ago but good and I did not fish as much. So with all the hullabaloo about there not being a lot of kings in the lake this year , maybe we weren't fishing the part of the lake the kings were .

So it was nice and I have not been fly fishing the tribs this year because it has been so good off my dock so I donned the waders and went to Sandy. North of Church Rd to be exact a long way north of the bridge Water was clear and I look down and see this phone in the water . Looks like it hasn't been in the water long . It's currently on charge and it booted up . No fish in the creek on the fly rod. Stopped at the cottage and went 3 for 4 on domestic rainbows and browns on jigs under a float .

Well, the people that give us this great fishery seem to think they can make it work . 2 days ago I heard of guy that said he caught a good amount of Atlantic's . I have heard of trib guys in my area getting some , so they are there . Let them try . If it's a flop ,then maybe they learn something about the fishery to make it better all around There a guys that would like to see them in the tribs ( me included ) so let the feds try . It's not hurting or taking away anything from anyone or a least not much . Maybe it's a waste of effort and resources but we do that all the time. When I first started doing this back in the late 70s , there were way more steelhead and the average size was much bigger . The lake was packed full of Alwives. It didn't seem that thimine deficiency was a problem back then ?

If the Feds are footing the bill for this , I don't see what the problem is . As much as everyone hates the lake trout , they sure save the day more times than a lot of us would like to admit . That is a successful fed program . I'll take a let's wait and see attitude on this . A diverse LO fishery is a great thing .All the more reason for people to come here . And no one style angler , lake or trib owns it . Both contribute financially to the state tax revenue .